British police investigating Twitter boast: "Think I just hit a cyclist. But Im late for work so had to drive off lol."

US investigators say Prince Andrew's former friend Jeffrey Epstein paid workers not to answer questions about whether the Duke slept with underage girls.

One of Margaret Thatcher's closest confidantes raped a teenage boy 30 years ago but escaped justice when Scotland Yard covered up the crime, it has been alleged.

The British nurse being treated for Ebola is now in a critical condition after her health "gradually deteriorated" in hospital.

An unusual job advertisement has attracted more than 10,000 applications from across the world, overwhelming the company.

Confused Islamists hoping to disrupt international travel fall short of their goal when they hack UK bus timetable instead.

Authorities are trying to trace all 71 passengers on a Heathrow to Glasgow flight who may have been exposed to Ebola.

Doctor who sat next to Pauline Cafferkey on flight back to UK says she may have contracted the disease while attending church service without her hazard suit on.

Sports fans know about the phenomenal exploits of Brendon McCullum, Lydia Ko and the All Blacks this year. Michael Burgess looks back at 10 other feel-good sports stories that captured the imagination in 2014.

A mother saw her teenage daughter and both of her parents 'killed almost right in front of her' when a refuse truck ploughed into pedestrians on Monday.

A spurned husband in England cut up $10,000 of his wife's clothes before packing them neatly back in the wardrobe.

English socialite Tara Palmer-Tomkinson threw a temper tantrum as she was arrested by eight armed officers.

Three members of the same family and a primary school teacher were killed when a rubbish truck careered out of control into crowds of Christmas shoppers.

A baby was feared to be among the victims as six people died and eight were injured when a rubbish truck careered out of control and into crowds of Christmas shoppers.

A newly discovered beetle has been named after television naturalist Sir David Attenborough.

British police are investigating claims that up to five paedophile rings operated at the heart of Westminster with the involvement of "highly influential" politicians.

You can take a role in testing the effect of warming skin on memory. Or you can involve yourself in a bid to land a spaceship on the Moon....

Scotland Yard investigates the murder of three young boys by a VIP paedophile ring, after a credible witness says a Tory MP killed a boy during a sex attack.

A British bookmaker says it has stopped taking bets on the Queen announcing her abdication in her Christmas Day message after receiving "a rush of bets".

A 15-year-old was prevented from joining Isis by British police who hauled her off a plane at Heathrow just as it was due to take off.

British PM David Cameron is under mounting cross-party pressure to approve an investigation into whether Britain was involved in the CIA's torture of suspects.

Hundreds of new cases accusing British soldiers of abusing - in many cases torturing - Iraqi men, women and children aged from 13 to 101, are to be considered by the International Criminal Court.

The collapsing oil price that is reshaping the global economy could derail the green energy revolution by making renewable power sources prohibitively bad value.

Dozens of flights have been cancelled in Britain and many others delayed after a computer failure at the headquarters of air traffic control company Nats.

The WikiLeaks founder has publicised a funding drive for a life-size bronze public statue of himself.

A British multimillionaire was impaled on an iron railing after plunging four storeys from his London penthouse.

Many years ago, when I was a young man, I visited London for the first time.

New Zealand resident Darrell Read is fighting charges from Britain's Serious Fraud Office that allege he was part of an international rates rigging scheme.